Can you suggest some places to stop along the way from VA to Florida, not too far off the highway?

Re: VA to Florida (I-95) - any place to see along the way

Posted by:
ToFrie
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Date: April 01, 2009 03:25PM

Cafe Risque and South of the Border in SC.

Re: VA to Florida (I-95) - any place to see along the way

Posted by:
Guy
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Date: April 01, 2009 03:25PM

reston Wrote:
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> Can you suggest some places to stop along the way
> from VA to Florida, not too far off the highway?

I've done this drive twice to Miami round trip.

South of the Border on the SC-NC border
Count the Number of South of the Border Signs
Truck Stops
Caffeine

Both times i did this drive, i left at 10pm and got to miami around noon-1pm the next day. This to me is the best time to drive.

Re: VA to Florida (I-95) - any place to see along the way

Posted by:
WingNut
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Date: April 01, 2009 03:33PM

I-95 to Florida from VA really sucks, there's about 2 1/2 hours each of VA and NC about 3 hours of SC 1 1/2 of GA and then you are in North Florida which is pretty much like GA until about a hundered miles or so in.SOmeone is going to say "South of the Border", don't listen...

IF you have the time (it's about an extra 2-3 hours) shoot east in NC and hit US 17. You can get it around VA Beach also, but it'll add more time.
Now it's a US Highway with a traffic light and a podunk town here and there, but it is absolutely beautiful at this time of year. WHile we're just getting a trace of Spring here, you'll feel like you're in the Wizard of Oz and everything is in color when you get toward the coast. Everything is in full bloom.

You can also hit WIlmington NC, Charleston or Myrtle Beach SC on US 17. The first two are nice little towns, the latter has some fun stuff for kids, like Ocean City with palmettos.

If you're really looking for some fun along the way, I've never found much off the 95 route, just set the cruise at 73 and jam for a day, then spend the next day in the pool recovering.

Re: VA to Florida (I-95) - any place to see along the way

Posted by:
Sgt. Rock
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Date: April 01, 2009 03:36PM

The 82nd Airborne Museum at Ft. Bragg (Fayetteville) is incredible.
Well worth the very short drive off I-95.

Yeah I second the driving during the night, leave like 10pm. Made it from Fairfax to West Palm Beach in 13 hours, just stopping for gas and to piss. Those 5 hour energy things filled me up pretty good for some reason. South of the Border is a shit hole, well at least it is in the off season. Did see a trucker walking with a girl to a motel there, so if you want to get some ass on the way down...

And of course use common sense at the rest stops. The panhandlers are not shy at all. We had one stick his head in the window while we stopped to get a few minutes rest on the humid summer night's drive down there. It scared the shit out of us when we woke up and there's some idiot with his head in our car begging for $2!

And don't give a dime to that tricky tramp who claims her boyfriend's car broke down and they need money to make it home.

I agree that you miss out on all the traffic by driving at night, but it's by no means an easy ride.

Re: VA to Florida (I-95) - any place to see along the way

Posted by:
tired
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Date: April 02, 2009 08:30AM

Drove by South of the Border on our way to Hilton Head last summer. The place looked abandoned (at the height of summer). Cafe Risque looked to be doing good business if that's your thing.

If your a guy, Fayetteville is about halfway so stop at the 82nd Airborne Museum before checking out the various topless joints. Deployed soldiers' baby mamas gotta pay the bills! Some decent campgrounds outside of town, too.

If your a chick, stop in Savannah to shop in the little boutiques.

Everything else along the way sucks or is too far off of 95 until you get to the Hard Rock Casino in Broward County.

Re: VA to Florida (I-95) - any place to see along the way

Posted by:
FX
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Date: April 02, 2009 02:03PM

Chili Today,
Hot tamale!

Re: VA to Florida (I-95) - any place to see along the way

Posted by:
Southern man
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Date: April 02, 2009 10:39PM

Just bask in the low literacy rate and high teen pregnancy rate from southern Virginia Through northern Florida.

I'm looking into the same thing - I do recall as a child stopping for BBQ in Smithfield, Air Museum in Fayetteville, several small flee and antique places off the beaten path (search internet), if you have children it would be a miserable trip if you don't stop South of the Border. Savannah has War Museums, plantations and small quaint shops for food, I recall a visit to light house somewhere in GA, St. Augustine is also like Savannah. There's a state park near Palm Coast, FL with lots of history/sugar plantation and don't forget Cape Cannaveral/NASA.

Re: VA to Florida (I-95) - any place to see along the way

Posted by:
Jim in Annandale
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Date: November 05, 2009 05:26PM

Pedro says take the Autotrain!!!! That way you don't have to meet up with Pedro.

Re: VA to Florida (I-95) - any place to see along the way

Posted by:
Pedro's
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Date: November 06, 2009 07:07AM

Area Man Wrote:
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> YOU NEVER SAUSAGE A PLACE!

I'm not sure, I post this in 2009. I think I'm lost, I keep driving through some kind of Quantum Window, or something, I can't get back, I just keep driving.

Re: VA to Florida (I-95) - any place to see along the way

Posted by:
thetourist
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Date: October 03, 2013 08:31PM

"It scared the shit out of us when we woke up and there's some idiot with his head in our car begging for $2!"

phhhhh. i was selling a newish car i could no longer afford due to gov workers stalking me at the workplace.*

i had a couple show up, car hardly ran (did NOT look like they could afford a new car or even pass state inspection). the Richmond va plates look beaten up / maybe stolen.

AND they tried to get me to let them test drive the car alone. asked me for the keys. they then acted as if I'd hurt them by suggesting that was not a good idea that i'd let them take the car off on pure trust.

that scared me shitless.

people coming from out of town to "check over the car" i'm selling

too bad i didn't have a phone service i coulda gotten a pic of them - if i weren't afraid what they might do if i had a photo of them

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people die from these people who want to wash your windows for $2

i know someone that happened to

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* i'd take a loss by selling but could pay the loss. a greater risk would be to keep it, have it depreciate, then have something "go wrong" and have it repo'ed adn be on the hook for much more.